SaSSari’s Celebration,
The March of the Candelieri has been part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2013. This is a very important recognition for the Celebration of Sassari, which is part of the Italian Great Shoulder-Machines Network, created in 2006 as an association whose aim is to preserve some of the oldest popular religious events in Italy.
SaSSari’s Celebration,
Unesco World Heritage
The March of the Candelieri has been part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2013. This is a very important recognition for the Celebration of Sassari, which is part of the Italian Great Shoulder-Machines Network, created in 2006 as an association whose aim is to preserve some of the oldest popular religious events in Italy.
The Shoulder-Machines
Network
The Network has a key supportive role in an interchange between four celebrations: the Santarosa of Viterbo Machine, the Varia of Palmi, the Gigli of Nola Festival and Sassari’s Faradda. The Candles of Gubbio was originally part of it as well.
The idea to link these traditions was put forth in 2010, with the intention of offering the celebrations of the Network as Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. After a complicated procedure, the application was submitted at the 2013 Turin International Book Fair and accepted by UNESCO.
What does Intangible
Cultural Heritage
mean?
“The cultural heritage is not delimited to monuments and collections of objects, but involves traditions and living expressions inherited from our forefathers and passed down to our descendants […] The importance of the intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural expression itself, but rather the treasure of knowledge and expertise which is passed down from generation to generation”.
(ich.unesco.org)
The Shoulder-Machines
Network
The Network has a key supportive role in an interchange between four celebrations: the Santarosa of Viterbo Machine, the Varia of Palmi, the Gigli of Nola Festival and Sassari’s Faradda. The Candles of Gubbio was originally part of it as well.
The idea to link these traditions was put forth in 2010, with the intention of offering the celebrations of the Network as Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. After a complicated procedure, the application was submitted at the 2013 Turin International Book Fair and accepted by UNESCO.
What does Intangible
Cultural Heritage
mean?
“The cultural heritage is not delimited to monuments and collections of objects, but involves traditions and living expressions inherited from our forefathers and passed down to our descendants […] The importance of the intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural expression itself, but rather the treasure of knowledge and expertise which is passed down from generation to generation”.
(ich.unesco.org)
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